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Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go; I turn my back to the… — William Blake
Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality… — Kofi Annan
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every… — Nikolai Gogol
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems… — George Eliot
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing… — Susan Sontag
It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer… — Edward Hoagland
Children always turn to the light. — David Hare
The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our… — R. D. Laing
The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the… — Merlin Olsen
Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast. — Tony Hsieh
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account. — Thomas Carlyle
I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat.… — Thomas Kinkade
As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented,… — Charles Baudelaire
And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the… — Nolan Ryan
It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we… — Dinaw Mengestu
Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled… — Boethius
The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself.… — Edward Abbey
Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to… — Julian Barnes
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have… — Thomas Jefferson
The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer. — George Washington
One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently… — Thomas Paine
The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth. — Robert Adams
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it… — Orson Scott Card

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